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Vergecast: Apple’s expensive Mac Pro, gadgets of the decade, and Twitter’s project Bluesky

December 13, 2019
Not only is the year ending, but the decade is ending, too. So The Verge lists the most influential gadgets in the first decade of its existence. Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller discuss how they picked their favorite gadgets of the decade as well as their process for deciding the list. But first, we start the show with the release of Apple’s Mac Pro. The crew talks about what they…
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Xbox Series X: How humongous is Microsoft’s next-gen console?

December 13, 2019
Microsoft introduced the name and design of the Xbox Series X on Thursday night during The Game Awards. And a lot of people are wondering if it’s going to fit into a traditional entertainment center when they pick one up next holiday. The issue, according to the renders…
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The crowdfunded cult of Amanda Palmer

December 13, 2019
Amanda Palmer wouldn’t exist in her current form without Patreon. That’s not to say Amanda Palmer the person would dematerialize if Patreon didn’t exist, but Amanda Palmer the artist would be a completely different beast. As it stands, Palmer is an independent musician churning out music videos, new songs, complete albums, blazingly honest social media diaries and bits of…
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OnePlus announces special event for CES 2020

December 13, 2019
OnePlus is sending out invites for a special event that will take place during CES 2020. The event will take place at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas from January 7 to January 10. The nature and purpose of this event is entirely unknown at this point. Calling the invite vague…
AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook’s DEC AI identified hundreds of millions of fake accounts over 2 years

December 13, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often likes to assert that AI has substantially cut down on the amount of abuse perpetrated by millions of users, and he’s not wrong — in its most recent Community Standards Enforcement Report, Facebook said it removed more than 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September, compared with just over 1.5 billion during the same period last year. And at least…
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MobileNews

OnePlus announces special event for CES 2020

December 13, 2019
OnePlus is sending out invites for a special event that will take place during CES 2020. The event will take place at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas from January 7 to January 10. The nature and purpose of this event is entirely unknown at this point. Calling the invite vague…
MobileNews

Vivo details some of the new features in FuntouchOS 10

December 13, 2019
Vivo has been teasing the upcoming X30 for quite some time now. The intriguing phone is expected to feature and Exynos 980 chipset, complete with an integrated 5G modem, as well as an impressive camera setup. It will be unveiled on December 16 and in a rather anticipated…
AI & RoboticsNews

DeepMind proposes novel way to train ‘safe’ reinforcement learning AI

December 13, 2019
Reinforcement learning agents — or AI that’s progressively spurred toward goals via rewards (or punishments) — form the foundation of self-driving cars, dexterous robots, and drug discovery systems. But because they’re predisposed to explore unfamiliar states, they’re susceptible to what’s called the safe exploration problem, wherein they become fixated on unsafe states (like a mobile…
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